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tulipssimmer
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So this summer I somewhat being forced to be sims free because we don’t have service for over two months. I’ve been dying to play Island Living but I’m not gonna get to till the end of August, send help!! I’ve been getting my kicks with sims forum so if anyone what to talk sims with please do. What happening in your world?
Update: To all the peeps who have giving helpful tips on how play offline, thank you. But the real problem is I don’t even have my laptop to play the sims.
Update: To all the peeps who have giving helpful tips on how play offline, thank you. But the real problem is I don’t even have my laptop to play the sims.
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The worst part is when I get back I have to go through all those updates! It’ll probably take a whole day updating my computer.
I've started writing my 1800s stories (posted on stories boards under "Back Then" and also on my Tumblr--link in signature). I also have a new piano teacher that is the hottie of the town and all the ladies want to take piano lessons from him or have their kids take piano lessons so that they can be around him. I'll start playing him today, which I've been looking forward to.
For a different project, I'm thinking about doing a life story for Alexander Goth who I played from teen to elder with grandkids in a previous save. He wasn't the main character, but I think I have enough screenshots of him to put together the story from his perspective.
I'm not going to buy Island Living until they get the bugs out, so maybe the end of August is actually a better time to get that pack anyway (trying to look on the bright side). I'm sorry you don't have sims. If you're into doing stories, maybe you could use this time to write out stories for previous characters you've played, text only. You wouldn't be limited by the game and could have them do anything you want. Could be fun.
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I have several different game saves going on at the moment. One save is being built up, but playing with the age setting turned off. Mostly working on the different lots in that one. It's been an ongoing project for over two years now. That one I'm not playing rotational, but I am playing most of the families in that one. I keep waiting for a Univerity pack to be released to really start playing that on.
In another game save, I am playing a short life span, but my main sim is a vampire. I haven't given her the ability to create other vampires, other than getting pregnant and giving birth. In the story, she is supposed to be much older than Vlad, and it can be seen in her dark form.
Even though she is a vampire, things don't always go the way she wants. They eventually got married, but the first time she proposed to him, he rejected her.
She would have completely broken it off with him at that point but didn't because there was a little one in her tummy.
I haven't been able to play sims today due a 36'c heatwave coming through the UK. computer temps get substantially higher in warmer temps, not to mention how hard the fans have to work to extract the warm air as it adds to the warm breeze coming through my place. So.. not a very good idea. i could now its towards the end of the day and the temps are coming down but i don't want to sleep in an oven of a room.
So in someway i feel the pain of not being able to do what you want with such limitations.
This makes me feel guilty as I am playing two different games and having so much fun.
The first family is a single mother named Verity Valentin. She has 8 children at home right now and 3 are normal, and 5 are aliens. After the last 3 were born I had no plans for her to have any more, but those pesky aliens wouldn't quit abducting her. Now along with the 8 kids she is pregnant with 5 more alien babies. 1 male and 4 female per the mcc mod. I have thankfully the ability to pause the pregnancy to let the children grow up into teenagers and move them out before she is allowed to complete the pregnancy lol. The three normal kids are name Felicity, Eleanor, and Jerome. The alien children are named Jeremiah, Aarav, Athena, Alina, and Rebekah. I am writing this as a story for my own purposes. I am playing them in disguise and with the premise, that these kids don't know they aren't human. They think they are human and haven't discovered their alien heritage yet as their mother has an amulet that keeps them in human disguise so they can have a normal life.
This is the mother Verity.
This is Jeremiah he loves that play rocket ship (I wonder why lol).
Eleanor
Felicity
Aarav
Rebekah
Alina
Athena
Jerome
The other game playing just for fun is a married Couple Dawson and Nadine Pennington. I went into a previous save and found this family which I had made myself, I put them in Oasis Springs but hadn't originally planned on playing them. So when I got bored the other day I decided to go back to this save and find a family to play in the save I hadn't played yet and I picked this family. When I started all the kids were toddlers. Turns out the mother is an alien in disguise and a few of her children are aliens in disguise and a few are normal that she had with her husband.
This is Nadine Pennigton.
This is her husband Dawson.
This is their daughter Adelynn. She is human.
This is Maximus an alien in disguise conceived during abduction.
This is Zayne he is human.
This is Aspen. She is an alien in disguise also conceived during abduction.
This is Crystal. She is an alien in disguise conceived during abduction.
This is Solomon also an alien in disguise, but the only difference from the other three is he is actually the son of Dawson and Nadine. I guess he inherited her genes lol.
This is Jordon who is human.
This is Desirae she is human.
Well with this many kids I wasn't planning on them having anymore, but the aliens foiled me again. Dawson got abducted and came back pregnant with 2 male and 3 female babies.
Dawson currently pregnant in 2nd trimester although per mod I paused his pregnancy until the kids can age up into teenagers and I can move them out. That wasn't bad enough, Nadine got abducted again and she came back pregnant with 2 male and 3 female babies and her pregnancy is currently on pause as well rofl. Wow this game sure knows how to throw curve balls.
Well I sure hope you can find a way to play before the end of August. I hope this doesn't make your not being able to play feelings worse.
I was under the impression that you needed the internet to at least let Origin verify that you owned the game. My experience comes from not having internet for a week from a freak lightning strike to our house that fried our modem by running up the phone line its plugged into (yea for living in the sticks and there only being one internet provider). When I tried to play the sims offline it wouldnt allow me to unless I connected my pc to my mobile hotspot on my cellphone and logged into Origin.
From what I remember, you have to select in Origin that you want to play offline in order to be able to play offline.
It sounds like OP never chose that option so Origin keeps trying to connect to their internet.
I lost internet before and when I wanted to play The Sims, I had to use my phone as a hotspot so my computer could have internet access and then all I did was open up Origin and turn off the internet option then I disabled from my hotspot and everything was all good.
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Not at all. As long as Origin remembers your login username you can login offline and play your installed games. Just like on Steam. If it's a new Origin installation or if you are login in with your account for the first time on your computer then yes, you need to be connected to the internet, otherwise it won't let you log in.
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> The worst part is when I get back I have to go through all those updates! It’ll probably take a whole day updating my computer.
have fun with this lol! jk. but seriously, have fun.
my sims are up to their usual shenanigans, which include not going to the bathroom even when their bladder has failed. Drinking and dancing to the radio when they're sleep deprived. Then starting a fire with some veggie burgers. On the side note, one of my sims just got engaged, and then her bestfriend trash talked the man she was engaged to. At a cookout. While strangers are listening on their convo! I love the sims ai.
I started playing sims from the Maxis gallery. It reminds me the Sim bins. It is sort of liberating. I realize I don't really like creating sims. If they look too much like real life, they're not fun to play. Same thing if they're too silly, it's hard to play them for a long time.
Maxis sims have the essence of sims. I have fun discovering them and I don't mind messing with them. Unlike premades who belong to a neighborhood and have a purpose.
I dropped them in New Crest and started building them houses as I play. Results are variable. Some are very weird, some are interesting.
And I gave a shot at rotation. I stopped in Sims 3 because of the weird story progression. But now, it's fun because they don't do much other than building relationships. One became friend with a merman. I plan to get them together. They also make enemies. It adds drama to Sims 4. Sims 4 don't have enough of it, so I take it where I can!
Along with having no service I don’t have my laptop either so it’s kinda of a lose lose.
Oh!....
I just trued playing my sims game without being connected to my wifi and it says I cant because "online login is currenyly unavailable". So I do need to be connected to the internet to play?
Well I don't know. When I turn my wi-fi off I can log in in offline mode and play my game.
It seems like I do because everytime I click on it a message from origin pops up saying I cant log in to play.
Example: I turn on my pc first thing in the morning, its not connected to the internet or the wifi and when I click on the sims 4 logo on my desktop the origin box pops up for me to sign in. My email, password are displayed and the box to keep me signed in is checked. But there is a msg at the top stating I cant login to play. So to me that sounds like I need to be connected to play a game I paid for.
However, if you guys dont need to be connected then thats great for you. I will peruse the EA help forums to see what Im possibly doing wrong so in case lightning ever strikes my house again and fries another modem I wont go crazy from not playing the sims
First I tried offline but still logged in and game started.
Then I logged out of Origin and went offline and got the error where I used to get the login (even tho' no internet) I don't know if they have changed anything or this is just a glitch but would be curious what others experience if they have the time to try it.
1. Stay logged in to Origin then turn off internet.
2. Try to play game
3. Log out of Origin completely then turn off internet.
4. Try to play game again.
I don't even get a login screen when offline anymore so that is why I think it may be a glitch.
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In my case, Origin updated on July 22 and since then has been "offline" so I can not play online or in offline mode. Five days now waiting for some fix or some magic to happen. Thanks to EA/Origin help who made me clear everything, reinstall and everything else under the sun I have no access to the game either way.
I am most definitely online, however. I miss the gallery and build challenges.